by phillipw | Jun 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Toot of All Evil Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The angels seldom sing. Just one small text, By John alone, says they create a song Or melody. The painters were so vexed About...
by phillipw | Jun 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Royal Servant Inside You Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Lift up your mind. Lift up its present, past— And springtime promises, the future. Flowers...
by phillipw | Jun 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
The First Sonnet Sequence in English: Anne Locke’s “A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner” It makes perverted sense that first of all This sonnet sequence is a set of pleas Pathetic as confession in a crawl Up Roman steps, the grovelling done on knees And in each sicko...
by phillipw | Jun 2, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Team of Losers Decided to Destroy the Rules Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The Modernists implied a doctrine from Not paradox but contradiction: Form {“Form is emptiness” ~ Takuan} Is...
by phillipw | Jun 1, 2025 | RE
The Monk Religion for enjoyment, for a wing To picnics, social life and pleasure gives Good reasons for the pains, for hymns to sing In chorus. If your picnic God forgives Those things that you feel guilt about, then, “Hell!” . . . Get on with...
by phillipw | Jun 1, 2025 | KN, PH, RE, SE, Uncategorized, WI
Behold, I Give You One COMMANDMENT* LOVE FIRST THYSELF. Forget about the love Of God and others; thinkers everywhere Have reached this one conclusion. Far above Religions, which are every one a snare, Decry this love. This first rule first implies, As streams...
by phillipw | Jun 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Weeping Willow or Burning Bush Yield to the willow The loathing, all the desire Of your inmost heart. ~ Basho The various religions posit you Can win with weakness. It is just a strength Dressed up as yielding, either with a view Towards God (in Islam) or in...
by phillipw | May 31, 2025 | BU
Buddha Solidifying from Incense Caused by Bing’s AI as instructed by the sonneteer. The sounds of worshipers and tourists fade As evening tidies up. From in the pond A quiet rises through the temple shade. Perhaps a twilight meaning from beyond The monks...
